Video: Welcome to Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

I am Deke McClelland. Hello and welcome to Illustrator CS5 One-on-One. My cradle to grave, everything you need to know, series on Adobe Illustrator, including all new project files and exercises. As the name One-on-One implies, I walk you through Illustrator as if I were teaching it to you in a classroom or corporate consulting environment, except that instead of getting lost in a crowd of students, you will receive my individualized attention. It's just you and me, One-on-One.

Illustrator is the gold-standard vector graphics program that is deep and complex. Fortunately, nobody knows the software like award-winning book and video author Deke McClelland. Join Deke as he explores such indispensable features as artboards, layers, line art, transformations, and the Pen tool. Gain expertise with real-world projects that makes sense. Exercise files accompany the course.

Welcome to Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

I am Deke McClelland.Hello and welcome to Illustrator CS5 One-on-One.My cradle to grave, everything you need to know, series on Adobe Illustrator,including all new project files and exercises.As the name One-on-One implies, I walk you through Illustrator as if I wereteaching it to you in a classroom or corporate consulting environment, exceptthat instead of getting lost in a crowd of students, you will receive myindividualized attention.It's just you and me, One-on-One.

Illustrator is an enormous, endlessly powerful application and there's a lot to know.Fortunately, it's all infinitely knowable stuff, as long as you learn it in aright order and at the right pace, which is why I've broken Illustrator CS5One-on-One into three parts.In this, Part 1, Fundamentals, I'll introduce you to the essential topics, thestuff that everyone needs to know.I'll start by showing you how to make a new document and work withmultiple artboards.You'll see how to manage your illustrations and other assets in the Adobe Bridge.

I'll show you how to draw line art and work with the Geometric Shape tools,which make quick work of creating simple, but elegant designs.In Chapter 6, Paint, Build, and Transform, we'll create a photo accurate pieceof artwork from scratch.Then I'll demonstrate Illustrator CS5's new stroking options.I'll show you the drawing feature that first put Illustrator on the map - the Pen tool.We'll see how to combine simple paths to create more complex ones, usingPathfinder operations.

And we'll wrap things up with a look at printing and exporting graphics to the Web.If that sounds like a lot, it is, but it's just the first blossom ofIllustrator's captivating garden of features.In later parts, I'll lead you into the advanced topics, the ones that are mostlikely to expand your creative range in the shortest amount of time.By the end, you'll have seen everything Illustrator has to offer.This is no tips-and-tricks course.I'm going to make sure you understand how Illustrator works and how you work with it.

One-on-One is your chance to go from 0 to 60 in one big overarching andconsistently presented series, one easy to ingest movie at a time.This is Adobe Illustrator at its best!

Q: I was not able to locate my saved shortcuts and cannot locate the folder I created to place the preferences into. The Illustrator steps are clear and using the search function I should be able to find the folder, but it cannot be located. How can I find the shortcuts file on a Mac?

A: To search for the shortcuts file on a Mac, press Cmd+F. Then change
the option that says "Kind" in the top-left corner to System Files by choosing "Other" and selecting "System Files" from the menu.

Then change the next option to "Are Included." Search for "KYS." The search should find any files that were installed.

Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?

A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.

Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US

Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."

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